Yoko Ono: In Her Life / Shining On After 40 years of being unfairly accused of breaking up the Beatles and harshly mocked for her avant garde art and pop music, Yoko Ono is finally being recognised as a true pioneer. By Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph Soon after I sit down to talk with Yoko [...]
JOHN LENNON: THE NEW YORK CITY YEARS John Lennon wasn’t born in New York City, but he was the quintessential New Yorker – an immigrant artist originally from the suburbs of a dying industrial seaport in the north of England who had parlayed his genius into early meteoric success, then followed his muse to another [...]
REFLECTING TRANSFORMATION Opens Thursday July 30th 6 – 9pm at the Caledonia storefront 443 W 16th St nr 10th ave July 30th through Sept 2009 Wed – Sat 12 – 7pm Artists include: U-Ram Choe | Cao Fei | Yoko Ono Stephanie Rothenberg| Alyson Shotz Sean Slemon | Suzanne Song | Siebren Versteeg Reflecting Transformations [...]
From MYFOXNY.COM Of the many passions legendary singer and songwriter John Lennon had was his love for New York City. Yoko Ono- his widow and former partner in life- spoke with Rosanna Scotto as they toured a new exhibit in SoHo honoring Lennon: “John Lennon: The New York City Years.” “He was passionately in love [...]
Hiroshima: Dropping The Bomb (BBC TV) It was the defining moment of the 20th Century – the scientific, technological, military, and political gamble of the world’s first atomic attack. This drama-documentary shows what it is like to live through a nuclear explosion, millisecond by millisecond. Special effects recreate the reality of the mission, and archive [...]
When the good folks at the Huff asked me to write a piece for the launch of the New York page, it was kind of like the feeling I might get if a friend or my sister ever asks me to be the maid of honor in one of their weddings: first, delight. Then, utter [...]
Visitors to New York’s famous Central Park can now get a guided tour of the attraction, voiced by a galaxy of stars. Yoko Ono, Jerry Seinfeld, Matthew Broderick, Anne Hathaway, Whoopi Goldberg, Glenn Close and Sigourney Weaver are among the 30+ celebrities who have recorded special messages about the park’s landmarks. Tourists and locals will [...]
No matter what you do, you’re always hearing something. –George Brecht James Cohan Gallery is pleased to announce White Noise, a group exhibition featuring works that exist at the intersection of visual art, music and sound by artists of different generations. In the exhibition, there will be sounds to be looked at and objects to be [...]
NEW YORK IN THE 70s – The photography of Allan Tannenbaum An Exhibition and Sale of photographs by Allan Tannenbaum, documenting the New York music, art, show biz, night club, social scenes. The show opens on May 29th and runs through June 25th, 2009. This exhibit will celebrate Allan’s fabulous and amazing photographs documenting this [...]
Earth Promise: Why is EARTH HOUR so important to you and what do you want people to learn from it? Yoko Ono: We are constantly creating more skyscrapers, when getting down to taking care of Earth is more important. Let’s return the skyline to the sky. Recall our love for Earthline. EP: Many people may [...]
A “conscientious objector” during a period of societal and political crisis throughout the world, John Lennon, along with his muse and alter ego Yoko Ono, sang a message of hope and tolerance that sought the transformation of violence into peace, and hate and racism into love. Today, the work they carried out together has not [...]
Part 1/4: Childhood Part 2/4: Passages For Light Part 3/4: Five Films & Chair Piece Part 4/4: Q&A Yoko Ono’s lecture at Stanford University on 14 Jan 2009 Courtesy of Yoko Ono, Stanford University & www.IMAGINEPEACE.com Lectures & Films ©2009 Yoko Ono Video Footage ©2009 Stanford University All Rights Reserved. Yoko Ono reflects on her [...]
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 30 January 2009 – 19 April 2009 EXHIBITION EXPLORES IMPACT OF ASIAN ART AND THOUGHT ON AMERICAN ARTISTS FROM THE LATE 19TH THROUGH 20TH CENTURIES Approximately 250 Works by 100 Artists and Literary Figures from James McNeill Whistler to Robert Rauschenberg and Ezra Pound to Allen Ginsberg [...]
Times Square, New York (W46th St & Broadway – to the left of Virgin Records) IMAGINE PEACE January 9th, 2009 yoko ono Imagine peace! It’s hard to kill people when we’re imagining peace. There would be no more war. If we all imagined peace, It sounds simple, but it’s true. So, go see the billboard: [...]
The Ghost of A Sabre Toothed Tiger Last minute gig – Monday 12 Jan at the Living Room at 6:30pm. The Living Room 154 Ludlow Street, (between Stanton and Rivington), New York, NY 10002 [map] Tel: 212-533-7237 www.livingroomny.com Directions: Take the F or V trains to 2nd Ave No Reservations. $5 suggested donation to artists, 1 drink [...]
IMAGINE PEACE love, yoko you can download full-size versions to print out here: A3 size | A4 size. // Share|
Street Art, Street Life at Bronx Museum of Art (New York) September 14, 2008–January 25, 2009 Wandering through “Street Art, Street Life,” I’m reminded of the title of a 1971 film by Shuji Terayama, Throw Away Your Books, Let’s Go into the Streets. That phrase seems to capture the sensibility that curator Lydia Yee has zeroed in [...]
By Jen Carlson, Gothamist Last night (on what would have been his 68th birthday), the Openhouse Gallery in SoHo opened their exhibit “Imagine Peace,” displaying over 100 of John Lennon’s drawings. The installation will be around through the weekend, and it’ll cost you $2 to get in, with the money going towards City Meals-on-Wheels. Featuring “Lennon’s characteristic drawings in hand-signed [...]
Starting on Thursday night, some of John Lennon’s art – including a few pieces never seen before – will be put on display at a Manhattan gallery by Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono. “Imagine Peace,” at the Openhouse Gallery in SoHo will feature more than 100 works created between 1968 and 1980. Some of it will [...]
On Oct.10, Montreal’s Musée d’Art Contemporain opens “Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967,” organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where 75-year-old Ono is given a central place in the section titled “Ono, Eno, Arto: Non-musicians and the Emergence of Concept Rock.” Organized by Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, [...]
